Convert data to a printable format.

[Sean]

Hi,

I have a situation here regarding a VB.net application. I
need to convert a bunch of data to a presentable and
printable format.

Is there an economical (perhaps an open source third party
library) and easy way to do this? (For example: may be
build an XML document from the data and then convert it
into PDF format.)

Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.

regards,
Sean

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Take a look at crystal reports that comes with vs.net.

Ken
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Hi,

I have a situation here regarding a VB.net application. I
need to convert a bunch of data to a presentable and
printable format.

Is there an economical (perhaps an open source third party
library) and easy way to do this? (For example: may be
build an XML document from the data and then convert it
into PDF format.)

Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.

regards,
Sean

 

[Tym]

Take a look at crystal reports that comes with vs.net.

I have vb.net 2003 standard learning

Don't think crystal came with it - what could I do instead?

 

[Guest]

Hi Tym

A hack I sometimes use is to use the Web browser control to render some HTML
output (create the HTML from XML using XSLT), then trigger printing using
SendKeys...in terms of comparing it to the Crystal Reports approach, you lose
the ability to print without displaying a Print dialog, and the design time
support isn't there, but it's still pretty neat!

HTH

Nigel Armstrong